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Person · 1684 - c.1782

Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85

Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.

Died c. 1782.

Person · 1744-1823

Born 1744 in Dickleburgh, Norfolk, the son of Isaac Cowper, vicar of Eye, Suffolk

School – Bury St Edmunds

Admitted pensioner to Clare College in 1760; matriculated 1760
B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767
Fellow of Clare College 1764–73

Ordained deacon London 1754
Ordained priest 1767
Rector of Paglesham, Essex 1771-81
Recton of Rattlesden, Suffolk 1778-98
Rector of Great Barton, Suffolk 1781-1823
Rector of Billingford with Thorpe Parva, Norfolk, 1798-1823
Benefactor to the College Library

Died 1823

Person · 19 April 1878 - 7 January 1943

Born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry Crossland and wife Mary Ann
School - Windermere Grammar

1894-1900 Student at University of London (gained BSc. in 1900)

9 July 1897 Admitted to Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1897 Scholar
Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1st Class, 1899
Part II, 1st Class, 1900
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904

1900 - 1902 Assistant to Sir Charles Eliot (British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Commissioner for East African Protectorate)

1902-1904 Assistant to Professor William Carmichael McIntosh at St Andrews University

July-Sept 1904 Collecting in the Cape Verde Islands

Oct 1904 - May 1905 Investigating fauna and flora of the Sudan Coast of the Red Sea

1905-1922 Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery

6 Jan 1906 Married Catherine Mary Dobson

1923 Scientific research in England

1924-1926 Joined the St George expedition to the South Pacific in 1924

1927 Scientific research in England

11 June 1927 2nd marriage, to Danish national Hildur Thal-Jantzen

1928 - Returned to Tahiti, to study coral reefs

1930-38 Established and directed a marine biological station at Ghardaqa on the Red Sea Coast

1938-1943 Moved to Denmark with Hildur and their son Ingolf Crossland continuing scientific work at the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum until his death

Person · 1617 - 26 June 1688

Born in 1617 in Aller, Somerset, the son of Ralph
Educated by his step-father Dr Stoughton

Admitted as a pensioner to Emmanuel College 1632, matriculated 1632
B.A. 1635/6, M.A. 1639, B.D. 1646, D.D. 1651
Made Fellow of Emmanuel 1639

Master of Clare College 1645-54
Regius Professor of Hebrew 1645-88
Rector of North Cadbury, Somerset 1650
Master of Christ’s College 1654-88
Rector of Toft, Cambridgeshire, 1656
Vicar of Great Wilbraham 1656
Rector of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, 1662
Prebendary of Gloucester 1678
Author of Intellectual system.

Father of John born in 1672
Died 26 June 1688 buried in Christ’s College Chapel

Person

Born in Palmanova, Friuli, Italy and educated at the University of Florence (1916–1920) graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences.

First World War - served in the military corps of the alpini and was captured by the Austrians.

Worked in the Universities of Florence, Pavia (1923–1924) and Milan (1924–1927) and as a consultant geologist for the Edison Company for hydroelectric plants in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey and Brazil, and the same capacity for the Public Power Corporation of Greece.
1973 he became Professor Emeritus at the University of Milan.

Led geographical and geological expeditions in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He also explored Antarctica.

In 1954 he led the Italian expedition to K2 when Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit

He spent his last four years in Rome, where he died in December 2001, aged 104.